UN and Venezuelan opposition warn of "systematic repression" and criminal takeover

Venezuela: UN documents post-electoral repression

UN-appointed investigators reported on Dec. 11 that Venezuela’s Bolivarian National Guard (GNB) has over the past decade carried out a pattern of killings, arbitrary detentions, torture, and sexual violence against protesters and political opponents of President Nicolás Maduro. Venezuela entered 2025 under intensified international attention, after a wave of repression followed the July 2024 presidential election. Protesters took to the streets …

Venezuela security forces linked to systematic abuses, UN reports

UN-appointed investigators reported on Thursday that Venezuela’s Bolivarian National Guard (GNB) has spent the past decade carrying out a pattern of killings, arbitrary detentions, torture, and sexual violence against protesters and political opponents of President Nicolás Maduro. Venezuela entered 2025 under intensified international attention after a wave of repression followed the July 2024 presidential election. Security forces, led by the G…

UN and Venezuelan opposition warn of "systematic repression" and criminal takeover

Venezuela is facing a deepening crisis of state-led repression and criminal infiltration, according to separate warnings issued this week by a UN investigative panel and opposition leader María Corina Machado.